Displays and Papers

Dragan Tapshanov
4 min readDec 10, 2019

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Traveling around the globe, hunting for people reading papers, books or using their phones.

Dragan Tapshanov | Paris, France 2018

The quality of a father can be seen in the goals, dreams and aspirations he sets not only for himself, but for his family. ―Reed Markham

Dragan Tapshanov — Kathmandu, Nepal 2015
Dragan Tapshanov | Kathmandu, Nepal 2015

Every time a newspaper dies, even a bad one, the country moves a little closer to authoritarianism — Richard Kluger

Dragan Tapshanov | Chiang Mai, Thailand 2016
Dragan Tapshanov | Bangkok, Thailand 2016
Dragan Tapshanov | Colombo, Sri Lanka — 2015
Dragan Tapshanov | Colombo, Sri Lanka 2015

I couldn’t find any way to tell the truth in a regular newspaper. — Molly Ivins

Dragan Tapshanov | London, UK — 2016
Dragan Tapshanov | London, UK 2016

The nice thing about doing a crossword puzzle is, you know there is a solution. ― Stephen Sondheim

Dragan Tapshanov | Berlin, Germany 2016
Dragan Tapshanov | Berlin, Germany 2016

Today a reader, tomorrow a leader. ― Margaret Fuller

Dragan Tapshanov | Chiang Mai, Thailand 2016
Dragan Tapshanov | Chiang Mai, Thailand 2016

“During my years of travel in South & South East Asia, I’ve never seen a street vendor that is struggling or looking exhausted. All of them are laid back, full of life and happy to help you out.”

Dragan Tapshanov | Shiraz, Iran 2017
Dragan Tapshanov | Muscat, Oman 2015
Dragan Tapshanov | Muscat, Oman 2015

There are 4 billion cell phones in use today. Many of them are in the hands of market vendors, rickshaw drivers, and others who’ve historically lacked access to education and opportunity. Information networks have become a great leveler, and we should use them together to help lift people out of poverty and give them a freedom from want. — Hillary Clinton

Dragan Tapshanov | Shiraz, Iran 2017
Dragan Tapshanov | Shiraz, Iran 2017
Dragan Tapshanov | Shiraz, Iran 2017
Dragan Tapshanov | Shiraz, Iran 2017

“I don’t recall seeing people on the streets in the West reading the Bible, or any other religious book for that mater. But in Iran, every market that I visited had people reading the Quran. It is very common to practice religion outside of the Mosques or other places of worship. They are true followers of faith.”

Dragan Tapshanov | Firenze, Italy 2017
Dragan Tapshanov | Malta 2017
Dragan Tapshanov | Barcelona, Spain 2018
Dragan Tapshanov | Hanoi, Vietnam 2014

Advertisements contain the only truths to be relied on in a newspaper. — Thomas Jefferson

Dragan Tapshanov | Paris, France 2018
Dragan Tapshanov | Paris, France 2018

Books are the quietest and most constant of friends; they are the most accessible and wisest of counselors, and the most patient of teachers.
Charles W. Eliot

Dragan Tapshanov | Rome, Italy 2019
Dragan Tapshanov | Chiang Mai, Thailand 2016

Let us read, and let us dance; these two amusements will never do any harm to the world. ― Voltaire

Dragan Tapshanov | Berlin, Germany 2016
Dragan Tapshanov | Berlin, Germany 2016

The Internet carries the flag of being subversive and possibly rebellious and chaotic, nihilistic. — David Bowie

Dragan Tapshanov | Paris, france 2018
Dragan Tapshanov | Paris, france 2018

In everyone’s life, at some time, our inner fire goes out. It is then burst into flame by an encounter with another human being. We should all be thankful for those people who rekindle the inner spirit.”
Albert Schweitzer

Dragan Tapshanov | Paris, France 2018

True friendship comes when the silence between two people is comfortable.
David Tyson

Dragan Tapshanov | Buenos Aires, Argentina 2019

See more of my work at www.Tapshanov.com

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Dragan Tapshanov
Dragan Tapshanov

Written by Dragan Tapshanov

Forever amateur photographer & Airbnb host in Skopje, Macedonia

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